Library Open Access in the Netherlands Double Dutch?

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1 Library Open Access in the Netherlands Double Dutch? Maria Heijne, Director

2 Double Dutch 1. Speech or writing that is nonsense and cannot be understood 2. A game of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes swung in a crisscross fashion. 2

3 Open Access in NL: DARE first 2002 : the development of the Digital Academic Repository known as DARE Meant to be bold and to challenge the publishing world The green road, since then, first sort of flow in thinking about open access reasonable successful. No progress regarding the subscription system: Spending increased Not an effective tool to overcome the publishers market power 3

4 Open Access in NL: why Political argument: availability of publicly funded scientific materials to other parts of society is still very poor: prove value to society In NL we support the commitment of publishing business and their role towards the scientific community Not legitimate ways to publish are not the way forward Moral argument : publicly funded research should not be a source of substantial private income for publishers There must be room for open discussion on sustainability of the model for both sides. 4

5 100% open acces in 2024 Gold Open Access No additional budget Universities negotiate

6 Open Access in NL Why gold? We consider it to be the most durable model Growing wish among scientists for a new publication model in which online publishing and data are better connected Green open access mostly seen as an archiving model and not as a publishing model in its own right allows publishers current business model to stay intact more suitable if publishers were willing to skip the embargo period -> ->-> not a long-term solution. 6

7 No additional budget

8 VSNU: 14 Dutch Universities University of Groningen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Leiden University University of Twente Delft University of Technology Wageningen University Utrecht University Erasmus University Rotterdam Radboud University Nijmegen Eindhoven University of Technology Tilburg University Maastricht University 8 Open University of the Netherlands

9 Focus on the biggest publishers Brill Wiley American Chemical Society BOOM Royal Society of Chemistry Elsevier Springer Sage Proquest Kluwer Oxford University Press Ars Aequi Taylor & Francis IOS Press Amsterdam University Press

10 Costs 8 biggest publishers cover 70% of NL market 8 biggest publishers smaller publishers rest 70% 20% 10% Number of publishers

11 Big deals as vehicle for open access negotiations Sage November 2014 two years partial OA deal 200 articles (20% of output) selected titles Springer July 2015 two years OA big deal on 1,700 titles excluded: BioMed Central, Springer Open

12 Big deals as vehicle for open access negotiations Wiley Taylor & Francis December 2015 four years OA big deal in 1,400 titles May 2016 two years OA big deal in 1,580 titles Oxford University Press Elsevier February 2016 ACS July 2016 Kluwer three years partial OA deal 3,600 articles ( % of output) selected titles four years OA big deal in 53 titles

13 Success Factors Unique bargaining model: form one block A powerful delegation (on university board level) to the negotiation Fidelity to principles: no price increase / 100%OA Clear political support

14 VSNU Negotiations Publishers claim: open access requires substantial price increase VSNU: fact based negotiations: details of publications by Dutch authors, total subscription fees, % OA, per discipline etc All 6 publishers fundamentally reversed course: Gold Open Access publishing without substantial price increase 100% OA or partial OA Institutional prepaid OA, not individual researcher Result: substantial increase of Dutch authored OA publications. Renegotiations next generation contracts

15 Collective action needed Impossible if only NL moves to Open Access NL accounts for 2-3% of academic publications worldwide Concerted EU action since Dutch Presidency spring 2016 EU pressure on publishers and universities to start transition More needed. USA and China? Collective action problem may cripple efforts If we do not start, nothing will happen Publishing vs using 15

16 Future actions Continue to concentrate on transition contracts with prepaid OA Increased transparency of current costs of publication (library s budget, not individual researcher) Transparency of Big Deals? 2 WOB (freedom of information) requests NL Share negotiation experiences Principal choice and discipline in academia, world wide - pressure from the boards of universities Public, political pressure; universities can only get so far through negotiations 16

17 Future actions: Green? Green Could be best alternative for some disciplines, Should be used as pressure tactic Collective action: Scholarly Communications License (based on Harvard) Joint global repository system Conditions for success (now debated in NL) One (national) policy for deposit of publications to guarantee sustainable access Avoid transfer of copyright to 3rd parties Guarantee for access to historic content 17

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